The shutdown of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, affects hog producers in three states and threatens the availability of 18 million servings of pork a day.

DAWSON (AP) -- The future of 80 family farms in southwest Minnesota rests on the fate of a new kind of hog processing plant set to open around the middle of December. It's farmer owned and controlled ...

With pork prices below the break-even point, pork promotion groups are looking ahead toward the opening of four new pork processing facilities in 2017 and 2018 to help reverse the current financial ...

The shutdown of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, affects hog producers in three states and threatens the availability of 18 million servings of pork a day.

A $240 million pork processing plant and the 1,800 jobs that go with it is looking for a home.Mason City City Council rejected a plan to bring a Prestage Farms hog processing plant there last ...

A new USDA proposal for hog slaughter factories will damage worker and food safety, experts say. The proposal, which is open for public comment until May 2, would expand a pilot program that allows ...

MASON CITY, IOWA — After nearly six hours of debate, it took attendees only several seconds — in near silence — before realizing the city's vote on a proposed hog processing plant came out as a tie, ...

MASON CITY — Mason City is on the brink of landing a hog-processing operation that is expected to employ 2,000 workers in its first two years. Officials declined to name the company. An official ...

MASON CITY, IOWA — After nearly six hours of debate, it only took attendees several seconds — in near silence — before realizing that the city's vote on a proposed hog processing plant came out as a ...

Mike Patterson’s hog farm near Kenyon typically sends animals to the Smithfield Foods processing plant in Sioux Falls. But he can’t now, after the plant shut down because of a COVID-19 outbreak. With ...

LES CÈDRES, QC, July 21, 2021 /CNW/ - Today, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, and the Member of Parliament for Vaudreuil–Soulanges, Peter Schiefke, ...

Winnipeg city councillors have voted to go ahead with an incentive package for the OlyWest hog-processing facility proposed for east Winnipeg. After hours of debate, councillors voted 10 to six to ...